DreamHost versus WP Engine

Price

• DreamHost From €11.99/mo
  • DreamPress 1: €19.99 monthly
  • DreamPress 1: €179.88 annual (€14.99/mo equivalent)
  • DreamPress 1: €11.99 monthly
  • DreamPress 3: €251.88 annual (€20.99/mo equivalent)
  • DreamPress 5: €359.88 annual (€29.99/mo equivalent)
• WP Engine From $35/mo
  • Essential: $35.00 monthly
  • Essential: $336.00 annual ($28/mo equivalent)
  • Core: $400.00 monthly
  • Enterprise: Vendor quotation required

These prices use different currencies. Read each with its own unit and conditions; they do not add up to one total or a cheaper product.

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Websites

DreamHost Business plans support 1–3 sites; Agency plans support 5–20, with more storage and longer backup retention.DreamPress 1: 1 websiteDreamPress 3: 3 websitesDreamPress 5: 5 websites

WP Engine An additional site costs USD 20 a month.Essential: 1 site, 25,000 visits a month, 10 GB; Up to 3 sites, 75,000 visits, 15 GB; Up to 10 sites, 100,000 visits, 20 GB; Up to 30 sites, 400,000 visits, 50 GBCore: 30–50 sites

Storage

DreamHost DreamPress 1: 15 GB NVMe SSD storageDreamPress 3: 30 GB NVMe SSD storageDreamPress 5: 50 GB NVMe storage

WP Engine Essential: 10–50 GB

Traffic or visits

DreamHost Visitor allowances are for sizing a plan; DreamHost asks you to contact it if your traffic is unusual.DreamPress 1: 40k monthly visits; unmetered bandwidthDreamPress 3: 125k monthly visitsDreamPress 5: 175k monthly visitors

WP Engine Visit numbers are estimates; contact WP Engine for dynamic sites or traffic spikes.Essential: 25,000–400,000 visits a month and 75 GB bandwidth

Introductory rate

DreamHost DreamPress 1: Yearly term: EUR 14.99 a month for the first year, EUR 179.88 upfront

WP Engine Essential: First-year pricing and coupons apply only to new customers buying Essential, once at signup.

Renewal rate

DreamHost DreamPress 1: Yearly term: auto-renews at EUR 19.99 a month after 1 year

WP Engine No renewal price is published; WP Engine says renewal pricing is subject to change.

Commitment

DreamHost 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan

WP Engine Overages are charged monthly even when the plan is prepaid for a year.Essential: Monthly or annual billing; annual saves 20%.

Backups

DreamHost Business plans: 14-day daily backup retention, 3 on-demand and 3 locked backups per site; Agency plans: 30-day daily backup retention, 5 on-demand and 5 locked backups per siteDreamPress 1: 14 days backup retentionDreamPress 3: 14 days backup retentionDreamPress 5: 30 days backup retention

WP Engine Daily automatic and on-demand backups on every plan, kept for no less than 30 and no more than 60 days.

Restores

DreamHost Backups are stored offsite on Amazon S3; you can download copies and restore a saved version from the panel, which replaces the live site.

WP Engine A restore can take from a few minutes to several hours and overwrites the whole site with the chosen backup point.

Migration

DreamHost Professional migrations equal to the number of sites in the plan

WP Engine Free automated migration pluginCore: Managed migration services

Staging

DreamHost 1-click staging for each website; it needs at least 5 GB of free space and is not included in the live-site daily backups.

WP Engine 1-click staging and development environments on Essential, Core and Enterprise

Support

DreamHost 24/7 WordPress support by chat and panel requests; chat may start with AI, and you can ask for a person.

WP Engine Essential: 24/7 technical support

Limits to check

• DreamHost Prices are monthly equivalents; annual and multi-year plans are paid upfront, and taxes may apply.
• WP Engine WP Engine does not throttle or cut off sites during traffic spikes.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: WP Engine: overage charges.

Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.

Next steps

• Ask DreamHost about overage charges; our sources do not establish it yet.

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